The high cost of schools closed by covid

Dom agnelo cardeal rossi school is on the south-western edge of São Paulo, more than an hour’s taxi ride from the city centre. It is in Vila do Sol, a community that was once one of the most violent in Brazil. Today it is poor but hard-working, a place of car-repair workshops, dingy lunch counters and small stores. In late March the school was humming with controlled ebullience, its 1,540 pupils aged six to 14 enjoying being back in the classroom for the first time in almost two years.